Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: Where to get boxes to ship sails?

Hi,
does anyone have any advice on where to get get a box in which to ship a sail? Do people advise packing sails in a box or just putting the address label right on a sail bag and taking it to UPS?
thanks
Ben

On small shipments you can get away without boxing them as long as you wrap them tight enough. Roll it as tight as you possibly can, strap it, sail bag it, put it in some sort of sleeve/large plastic bag, then wrap packing tape around the whole thing, SUPER TIGHT. You'll be amazed how small you can make it. We've never had a problem.

Any appliance dealer carries sail shipping boxes, if you don't mind Maytag or Whirlpool logos on them. Cut out a big slab of cardboard from a refrigerator box, crease and fold it into five segments, and fold that into a long box. Tip: make the sides uneven so your final box cross-section is a trapezoid instead of a square, so it's uncrushable. I've used the same box now a few times and it's still solid.

On small shipments you can get away without boxing them as long as you wrap them tight enough. Roll it as tight as you possibly can, strap it, sail bag it, put it in some sort of sleeve/large plastic bag, then wrap packing tape around the whole thing, SUPER TIGHT. You'll be amazed how small you can make it. We've never had a problem.

Aloha.

yes we do this often. we wrap the sail in a layer of large bubble wrap and tape it good. put cardboard on the tips to prevent damage.
then mummy it with packing wrap. the mummy part makes it pretty strong.

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